Ben Kweller Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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What’s your problem? Why can’t you just be happy for people instead of seeing the world through the haze of your own misery?
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In the end, We're all the same.
